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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • What do my personal goals have to do with anything? I want a society based on solidarity, justice, human rights, democracy and without discrimination. More and more people vote and voice support for nationalism, social darwinism, fascism and suppression of diversity. I know perfectly well what I want. I take offense that others don’t want my goals and actively want to criminalize me, suppress my rights and more and more openly kill me.

    So tell me how do I get my neighbors and fellow citizen to choose peace and love instead of hate and cruelty?

    If I knew the path, I’d go it. That’s the point you stubbornly refuse to engage with.







  • Calling it an immigration debate is a symptom itself, right? We’re usually not talking about people coming here to study and to work, which would be immigration. Instead the debate is about asylum for refugees, whether refugees get individual human rights or if they can be treated in bulk with imposed limits, where they can be sent and who has to deal with them, who builds walls, whether they can be drowned in the mediterranean or if it’s legitimate to shoot them at the borders, whether activists who rescue them from drowning are criminals.

    Stop framing it as immigration, which is a bit in each country’s purview to organize or not, and can indeed be debated. Here we’re talking about human rights for human beings who are in a desperate situation and deserve every help they need and if we can’t grant them that then we have failed our shared values, and our economic system and our political system are apparently unsuited for humanity and should be abolished. Refugees are welcome or you are an asshole and there cannot be any discussion about this, at all, in a modern democracy with human rights.